{"id":69549,"date":"2024-11-16T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=69549"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T09:32:27","slug":"j-c-newman-cigar-co-ships-final-2024-release-of-yagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/j-c-newman-cigar-co-ships-final-2024-release-of-yagua\/","title":{"rendered":"J.C. Newman Cigar Co. Ships Final 2024 Release of Yagua"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is shipping the final\u00a0release of the year of its famous Yagua cigars.<\/a>\u00a0 A total of 1,850 boxes of Yagua are being shipped to almost 500\u00a0premium cigar retailers in 46\u00a0states.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt continues to shock me that Yagua has developed a cult-like following,\u201d said fourth-generation owner Drew Newman.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t make Yagua to sell.\u00a0 In fact, I didn\u2019t think that cigar enthusiasts would like Yagua because it breaks all of the cigar-making rules.\u00a0 Yagua is misshapen and unattractive.\u00a0 We roll it with underfermented tobacco, and no two Yagua are alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yagua is a recreation of a farm-rolled cigar that Lazaro Lopez, general manager of the J.C. Newman PENSA cigar factory in Nicaragua, remembers his grandfather making at his family\u2019s tobacco farm in Cuba in the 1940s.\u00a0 Over dinner in 2019, Lopez shared this story with Newman:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt our family farm, my grandfather would take fresh tobacco leaves from the curing barns and roll cigars without any molds or presses,\u201d said Lopez. \u201cIn an attempt to give his cigars a traditional shape, he would tie a handful of them together using pieces of the Cuban royal palm tree, known as the yagua. When he was ready to enjoy his personal cigars, he untied the bundle. He loved how every cigar had its own unique shape. I still remember the rich aroma and taste of my grandfather\u2019s cigars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after being rolled, 20 Yagua cigars are bound together while still wet using a Yagua palmiche palm leaf. Each box of Yagua contains a bundle of 20 cigars still wrapped in the palm leaf.\u00a0 Yagua cigars measure 6\u00d754.<\/p>\n

\u201cYagua is a difficult cigar to roll because we use an under fermented Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, blend the filler tobaccos differently, and do not use the usual tools and techniques of a cigar factory,\u201d said Newman.\u00a0\u201cAs the wrapper is not fully fermented, we have age the cigars for a full year after they are rolled.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is shipping the final\u00a0release of the year of its famous Yagua cigars.\u00a0 A total of 1,850 boxes of Yagua are being shipped to almost 500\u00a0premium cigar retailers in 46\u00a0states. \u201cIt continues to shock me that Yagua has developed a cult-like following,\u201d said fourth-generation owner Drew Newman.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t make…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,55,2812,44],"tags":[6635,6265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69552,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69549\/revisions\/69552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}